ATHERINIDAE * Atherinomorus forskalii (Rüppell 1838) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Atherina pectoralis; Kimura et al. 2007). Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Alanetta forskali; Bucciarelli et al. 2002, as Atherinomorus lacunosus; Kimura et al. 2007), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Atherinomorus lacunosus). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Atherina Forskalii; Abu El-Regal et al. 2014), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Atherina pinguis), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Atherina pectoralis; Giglioli 1889, as Atherina Forskalii), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Atherina hepsetus; see Fricke 2008; Kimura et al. 2007). General distribution: Red Sea endemic. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Norman 1927, as Atherina pinguis; Kimura et al. 2007). Atherinomorus lacunosus (Forster in Bloch & Schneider 1801) Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Atherina pinguis; Abu El-Regal et al. 2014), Eritrea (Botros 1971, as Atherina pinguis; Bucciarelli et al. 2002), Saudi Arabia (Smith 1965a, as Pranesus pinguis ruppelli; Gladstone 2002; Kimura et al. 2007). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago. * Hypoatherina gobio (Klunzinger 1884) Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Smith 1965a, as Allanetta afra; Golani & Lerner 2007, as Hypoatherina temminckii). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Atherina cylindrica; Klunzinger 1884, as Atherina gobio; Sasaki & Kimura 2014), Eritrea (Sasaki & Kimura 2014), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Atherina afra). General distribution: Red Sea endemic. * Hypoatherina golanii Sasaki & Kimura 2012 Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Sasaki & Kimura 2012), Israel (Sasaki & Kimura 2012). Red Sea main basin: ¯ Remark: Previous records of Hypoatherina barnesi (non Schultz 1953) are based on this species (see Sasaki & Kimura 2012). General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.

Published as part of Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2018, Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants, pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 4509 (1) on pages 43-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566